Genesis 49

Question 1

Genesis 49:1

Answer 1

Then Jacob called for his sons and said: “Gather around so I can tell you what will happen to you in days to come.

Question 2

Genesis 49:2

Answer 2

“Assemble and listen, sons of Jacob; listen to your father Israel.

Question 3

Genesis 49:3

Answer 3

“Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, the first sign of my strength, excelling in honor, excelling in power.

Question 4

Genesis 49:4

Answer 4

Turbulent as the waters, you will no longer excel, for you went up onto your father’s bed, onto my couch and defiled it.

Question 5

Genesis 49:5

Answer 5

“Simeon and Levi are brothers - their swords are weapons of violence.

Question 6

Genesis 49:6

Answer 6

Let me not enter their council, let me not join their assembly, for they have killed men in their anger and hamstrung oxen as they pleased.

Question 7

Genesis 49:7

Answer 7

Cursed be their anger, so fierce, and their fury, so cruel! I will scatter them in Jacob and disperse them in Israel.

Question 8

Genesis 49:8

Answer 8

“Judah, your brothers will praise you; your hand will be on the neck of your enemies; your father’s sons will bow down to you.

Question 9

Genesis 49:9

Answer 9

You are a lion’s cub, O Judah; you return from the prey, my son. Like a lion he crouches and lies down, like a lioness - who dares to rouse him?

Question 10

Genesis 49:10

Answer 10

The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs and the obedience of the nations is his.

Question 11

Genesis 49:11

Answer 11

He will tether his donkey to a vine, his colt to the choicest branch; he will wash his garments in wine, his robes in the blood of grapes.

Question 12

Genesis 49:12

Answer 12

His eyes will be darker than wine, his teeth whiter than milk.

Question 13

Genesis 49:13

Answer 13

“Zebulun will live by the seashore and become a haven for ships; his border will extend toward Sidon.

Question 14

Genesis 49:14

Answer 14

“Issachar is a rawboned donkey lying down between two saddlebags.

Question 15

Genesis 49:15

Answer 15

When he sees how good is his resting place and how pleasant is his land, he will bend his shoulder to the burden and submit to forced labor.

Question 16

Genesis 49:16

Answer 16

“Dan will provide justice for his people as one of the tribes of Israel.

Question 17

Genesis 49:17

Answer 17

Dan will be a serpent by the roadside, a viper along the path, that bites the horse’s heels so that its rider tumbles backward.

Question 18

Genesis 49:18

Answer 18

“I look for your deliverance, O LORD.

Question 19

Genesis 49:19

Answer 19

“Gad will be attacked by a band of raiders, but he will attack them at their heels.

Question 20

Genesis 49:20

Answer 20

“Asher’s food will be rich; he will provide delicacies fit for a king.

Question 21

Genesis 49:21

Answer 21

“Naphtali is a doe set free that bears beautiful fawns.

Question 22

Genesis 49:22

Answer 22

“Joseph is a fruitful vine, a fruitful vine near a spring, whose branches climb over a wall.

Question 23

Genesis 49:23

Answer 23

With bitterness archers attacked him; they shot at him with hostility.

Question 24

Genesis 49:24

Answer 24

But his bow remained steady, his strong arms stayed limber, because of the hand of the Mighty One of Jacob, because of the Shepherd, the Rock of Israel,

Question 25

Genesis 49:25

Answer 25

because of your father’s God, who helps you, because of the Almighty, who blesses you with blessings of the heavens above, blessings of the deep that lies below, blessings of the breast and womb.

Question 26

Genesis 49:26

Answer 26

Your father’s blessings are greater than the blessings of the ancient mountains, than the bounty of the age-old hills. Let all these rest on the head of Joseph, on the brow of the prince among his brothers.

Question 27

Genesis 49:27

Answer 27

“Benjamin is a ravenous wolf; in the morning he devours the prey, in the evening he divides the plunder.”

Question 28

Genesis 49:28

Answer 28

All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father said to them when he blessed them, giving each the blessing appropriate to him.

Question 29

Genesis 49:29

Answer 29

Then he gave them these instructions: “I am about to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my fathers in the cave in the field of Ephron the Hittite,

Question 30

Genesis 49:30

Answer 30

the cave in the field of Machpelah, near Mamre in Canaan, which Abraham bought as a burial place from Ephron the Hittite, along with the field.

Question 31

Genesis 49:31

Answer 31

There Abraham and his wife Sarah were buried, there Isaac and his wife Rebekah were buried, and there I buried Leah.

Question 32

Genesis 49:32

Answer 32

The field and the cave in it were bought from the Hittites. “

Question 33

Genesis 49:33

Answer 33

When Jacob had finished giving instructions to his sons, he drew his feet up into the bed, breathed his last and was gathered to his people.